Gabriela Albergaria
Vermelho, Sao Paulo
Galería Vermelho, Sao Paulo, inaugurated its 2010 exhibitions program with three excellent solo shows: “Universe”, work by the collective Detanico Lain; Ana María Tavares’s “Paisagems perdidas” (Lost Landscapes); and the recent work of the Portuguese artist Gabriela Albergaria. The program thus gath- ered together three different yet consonant gazes on the nat- ural world. The collective Detanico Lain’s gaze focused on the cosmos, on a great and superior order, and to this end it explored via installation, sound, drawing and video proposals systems through which the celestial panorama has been stud- ied and understood.
As in earlier works, the artists recodified and reordained the study systems that constitute their point of departure, in order to create their own, in which poetry would be the intention that would guide interpretation. Thus the known stars were reranked in the gallery space according to their magnitude order. In her second solo show at the gallery, Gabriela Albergaria presented a new approach to the issues through which she reflects on the meaning of natural adaptation in environments that go against the origin and demand modifications. In these exercises, in which she metaphorically refers to the conflicts derived from colonization, she performed an amazing intercrossing between photography, drawing and installation, and she offered, in addition, a particular interpretation of time and of the real.
For her part, in her most recent work Ana María Tavares, in sculptural constructions that also included drawing, incorporated new forms into the central reflection of her project, devoted to the relationships between modern construction and language. On this occasion, the artist exhibited three bodies of work dominated by the transparency of a new encounter between angularity and organicity, and thus referred to nature as a construction and to architecture as a machine for seeing the world.
